Comp Freeze

please confirm

Thursday, October 20, 2005 by werewolf | Discussion: Personal Computing

Hi,

By freeze I mean total lock-up. No keyboard, no mouse, nada. It happens within 3 minutes of turning on the computer. To take drivers and such out of the equation, I left my computer on the boot loader (dual boot linux/winXP) and it froze.

Is there anyway that drivers could still be an issue here? I'm going to start checking all my hardware possibilities, but I need to get rid of the software issue first.

Thanks so much for your reply.

D
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tjesterb
Reply #1 Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:22 PM
Make sure your CPU fan is running, then you could try taking out individual sticks of RAM and see if one of them is the problem.

Corky_O
Reply #2 Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:35 PM
Also check your power connections, and use a P/S 2 keyboard to remove USB issues.

werewolf
Reply #3 Friday, October 21, 2005 11:08 AM
thanks guys, that's what I had in mind.

I've got a p/s2 keyboard and a regular mouse, but I do have a USB 2 PCI card for cameras and media players, etc so I'll take that out.

Also reseating the ram/changing the slots, etc. Reseat the video card and the PCI cards. I just wanted to dismiss drivers or any other sort of software.

Thanks again.

werewolf
Reply #4 Friday, October 21, 2005 3:47 PM
well, it seems that reseating everything did the trick. I've beein in XP and Linux for a couple of hours with no problems. Thank goodness!

Going to unplug everything and give it a good blowing out.

Corky_O
Reply #5 Friday, October 21, 2005 4:13 PM
Good to hear, werewolf.

werewolf
Reply #6 Friday, October 21, 2005 8:39 PM
thanks Corky_O, I really don't have the money to replace stuff.

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